Lead Acid Battery Reconditioning Guide

Extend The Life Of Your Car Battery

Do you know why a battery becomes weak
after some time?

A car lead acid battery loses its
ability to generate electric charge due to a process known as
sulfation.

A car battery generates
electric current through a chemical reaction. Lead and lead dioxide,
which are the active materials on the battery’s plates, react
with sulfuric acid in the electrolyte to form lead
sulfate.

When formed, the lead sulfate are very
fine and can be converted back to lead. However, over a long period of
time, fine lead sulfate will coat the battery’s
plates causing less surface contact with the electrolyte.

When less battery plates surface are in
contact with the electrolyte, less electric current will be
generated by the battery. It will reach a point where the power output
from the battery is insufficient to start a car engine.

The key to bringing a weak lead acid
battery back to life is to remove the layer of lead sulfate from the
battery plates. There are many ways to do so.

Lead
Acid Battery Reconditioning Guide

If you don't want to spend money buying
a new car battery, you can choose to recondition old ones.

Can all old or weak batteries be brought
back to
life?

That depends of a few factors. If the
battery is damaged with a cracked casing, there is nothing much you can
do.

If the battery is giving out a very low
voltage because of old age and sulfation, there is a possibility it can
be reconditioned into service life.

To know the proper process of
reconditioning car batteries, check out the Reconditioning Battery
guide by Les Oke.

Les and his family have been living off
the power grid for more than 15 years. Living true to their green
lifestyle, they commute using a pure electric vehicle (EV). An EV uses
15 - 20 units of deep cycle batteries.

To save cost, Les will pick up old
batteries and recondition them. Doing so has saved him thousands of
dollars. The Reconditioning Battery guide is Les Okes's years of
experience reconditioning hundreds of batteries penned down.

From the manual, you do not only learn
how
to recondition a lead acid battery, Les has included steps on
reconditioning other types of batteries such as: